Friday, September 23, 2011

Freud and the "Rat Man"

With the rat man consulting Sigmund Freud as his personal psychologist I believe was a mistake no offense to Freud, only because I believe his views on people in general were biased. He tends to relate current issues to sexual and candid sexual desires - as is the unwanted case with the "rat man". On the other hand, I have agreed with Freud's impressive capability to avoid possible transferent reactions to his patient. I can continue to add that in reference to what we have learned the rat man's case has presented evident traits of the OCD disorder.As we have described the characteristics of obsession the rat man is the perfect picture: his feelings have expressed all attributes. He has inappropriate (not in his character) thoughts of rats eating away at his anus which I believe originated from his days in the army. He also has recurrent thoughts of cutting himself with razors to the intrusive thoughts of something unfortunate happening to his fiancee, not to mention, all thoughts having a dominant feeling of unwanted-ness.
I also do not believe that the rat man's rat thoughts/dreams were repressed sexual desires, I believe when objects such as this overpowers a person's mind, there is a void that this tangible factor is filling.

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